This iconic building was officially opened in 1937 and is registered as a Category 1 Historic Place on the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register. The partition walls tested existed in-situ as single-leaf clay brick walls bounded by concrete slabs above and below with two-leaf thickened columns at specific locations.
The following were done on-site:
- Full scale out-of-plane proof testing of single leaf URM partition walls
- Out-of-plane performance of single-leaf, unreinforced masonry partition walls with vertical saw cuts in order to induce single-axis flexure, and
- Out-of-plane performance of single-leaf, unreinforced masonry partition walls tested in-situ in double-axis flexure.
- Determine the maximum load (and corresponding displacement) that the clay brick partition walls in the Wellington Railway Station can be reasonably expected to achieve given different boundary conditions.
- In-situ material testing
